Once upon a time there was a blind squirrel ........

No it’s not the start of a fairy tale I was writing for my two youngest grandsons. Not for all three because Oliver is much too sophisticated for stuff like that. Rather it’s a story for us, the voters but, once I started to write and the more I wrote, the sadder it got because we need a kick in the ass from the sharp toe of reality. Kids, on the other hand, need hope; that’s why they learn to walk so that they can get to the stuff they can’t quite reach. That’s why they learn to talk; so that they can ask questions and above all, ask why. Then later in life, they can ask why not. Because that is probably the most important question of all. The one we should all ask, all the time and we should never, ever stop.

Obama promised hope but then he crushed it with his actions. He has just saddled the yet unborn with debt that makes them bankrupt before the midwife or the doctor smacks their tush and welcomes them into the world. No wonder the first “gift” Obama’s government gives them is a Social Security Number.

Paying tax is patriotic according to Joe Biden and so the earlier the newborn starts the better. And the more they pay, according to Joe, the more patriotic they become. Who needs the DAR?

How did I get to “hair plug” Joe? Well he was about due, wasn’t he?

At least both Obama and Biden have one thing in common. Neither of them should ever hold a press conference. Obama doesn’t just in case a question comes up to which there is no answer on his teleprompter screen. Which brings up another question. Who is running the Democratic Party? My guess is Axelrod. Clearly it’s not Obama for if it were why would he need the questions in advance and/or why would he need that damn teleprompter for even the impromptu?

Even, “stupid, incoherent, dyslexic”, President George W. Bush” could handle that. But, perhaps the answer to that is because he couldn’t even find the thing in a crowded room or read it even when he did. Isn’t that what liberals think?

Anyway, back to Joe. Right after the details of the first stimulus package were published, Joe held a press conference and was asked, presumably by a small business owner, just what was in it for her. Joe thought for a little while but, obviously, not for long enough. Then he said, “If your business is on one side of a river and you have potential customers on the other, we’re going to make sure there’s a bridge between and that it’s a safe bridge”. He should have quit while he was losing but didn’t. “And”, he added, “You’ll all have ‘Smart Meters’ in your homes and your businesses so you’ll save energy which will mean lower utility bills so the customers will have more money and you, the business owner, will be able to lower your prices”.

Now, I ask you, did you ever hear such convoluted “gobbledygook”? One heartbeat away from the Oval Office?

But Joe wasn’t finished yet. He wasn’t about to go out on a low note. He was going to dig. And now came the prompt.

“Mr. Vice President, you mentioned a web page which lays all this out. Where can we find it”? This was the ball that he should have been able to knock out of the park with his eyes closed. But no, good ole Joe screwed it up again.

“Gee”, he said, “I should have that number in front of me but I just don’t”.

Now before my liberal fellow geeks climb all over me and remind me that any and every web page has a number, an IP address number to be precise, please believe me on this. Joe Biden couldn’t spell IP, he couldn’t tell you to save his life what the letters stand for, and he would not know what they meant.

While all this was going on, the Daily Telegraph from London was reporting more about the slap in the face to Gordon Brown. According to them and the White House and the U.S. State Department, the breach of accepted protocol was because Obama was “tired”, his workload was too high; and anyway, according to Foggy Bottom, “What’s so special about the UK”?

Clearly, therefore, Biden was right when on the primary campaign trail he declared, “Barack Obama is not ready to be the President of these United States”.

Which takes me back to my grandsons' fairy tale in which even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while!